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Joseph Weir, 23, who confessed to New York City police in May to forcibly licking the feet of as many as 70 women, said he didn’t mean to hurt anyone but just wanted “to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me.” “I get on my knees, grab their feet and bow,” he said (according to a New York Post story). “I compliment women, I bow to them.”
In June, British worker Mr. Sivanadian Perananthasivam was awarded three months’ paid leave plus medical expenses after proving that a supervisor had used two colloquial terms for the man’s posterior during an angry office exchange.
The Supreme Court of Canada affirmed in June that a woman divorced seven years ago is still so fragile from her husband’s leaving her that she should continue to get spousal support (in spite of Canada’s no-fault divorce law).
Two New Jersey schoolboys separately complained recently that in yearbook sports photos, a tiny portion of their genitals can be seen up the legs of their shorts. (A Colts Neck High School student’s lawsuit was dismissed in June, and a Phillipsburg High School student is pondering a lawsuit, even though a school official ordered the offending page ripped out of all books.)
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